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+export function xorMergeStrings(strings: string[]) {
+  // Split the input strings into arrays of lines
+  const [str1, str2] = strings;
+  const lines1 = str1.split("\n");
+  console.log("🚀 ~ xorMergeStrings ~ lines1:", lines1);
+  const lines2 = str2.split("\n");
+  console.log("🚀 ~ xorMergeStrings ~ lines2:", lines2);
+
+  // Determine the maximum number of lines
+  const maxLines = Math.max(lines1.length, lines2.length);
+
+  // Initialize an array to hold the merged lines
+  const mergedLines = [];
+
+  // Iterate through each line index up to the maximum number of lines
+  for (let i = 0; i < maxLines; i++) {
+    // Get the current line from each string, or an empty string if the line does not exist
+    const maxLength = Math.max(lines1[i].length, lines2[i].length);
+    const line1 = lines1[i].padEnd(maxLength, " ");
+    console.log("🚀 ~ xorMergeStrings ~ line1: \n", line1);
+    const line2 = lines2[i].padEnd(maxLength, " ");
+    console.log("🚀 ~ xorMergeStrings ~ line2: \n", line2);
+
+    // Determine the maximum length of the current lines
+    console.log("🚀 ~ xorMergeStrings ~ maxLength:", maxLength);
+
+    // Initialize an array to hold the merged characters for the current line
+    const mergedLine = [];
+
+    // Iterate through each character index up to the maximum length
+    for (let j = 0; j < maxLength; j++) {
+      // Get the current character from each line, or a space if the character does not exist
+      const char1 = line1[j];
+      const char2 = line2[j];
+
+      // Determine if each character is a whitespace character
+      const isWhitespace1 = char1.trim() === "";
+      const isWhitespace2 = char2.trim() === "";
+
+      // XOR merge the characters based on the whitespace criteria
+      const mergedChar = isWhitespace1 ? char2 : char1;
+
+      // Add the merged character to the merged line
+      mergedLine.push(mergedChar);
+    }
+
+    // Join the merged line array into a string and add it to the merged lines array
+    mergedLines.push(mergedLine.join(""));
+  }
+
+  // Join the merged lines array into a single string with newline characters
+  return mergedLines.join("\n");
+}